Call for the Dead by John le Carré Why Not Me

Why Not Me

and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

and filled with the tricks of memory and grief

it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring

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Call for the Dead by John le Carré Why Not MeAfter a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans and their agents know more